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What State is it? 



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..Arkansas.. 

of Course. 



The Land of Sunshine 
and Plenty. •<^^*?^- 





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Fact 



for the 



. . Millions . . 

Who are Seeking Homes 

in the 

South-Land. 



Investigate 

Arkansas. 



Fact 



FOR THE 

Home-Seeker, 

Manufacturer 

and Investor, 



In the land of sunshine, health, fruit, flowers, 
textile fibre, timber and minerals. 

In the same latitude where the arts and 
sciences reached their highest development in 
ages past, and where our Savior was born. 



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There is no place on the face of the globe 
where nature has done more for the comfort 
of man than in Arkansas. 

Investigate and you will come and make y<^ur 
home among a good people, where under 
your own vine and fig tree you literally 
gather your family, praising God you hnve 
found that better land. 




ARKANSAS. 



PICTURESQUE SURROUNDINGS. 

PLENTY OF SUNLIGHT. 

PURE WATER. 



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Arkansas, with an area of over 53,000 square 
miles, occupies the most desirable part of 
the temperate zone, and her varied altitude 
gives the State what equals ten degrees of 
latitude, thus rendering it the most desir- 
able locality on the continent for the home 
of man. Within this area is found a great 
variety of product, ranging from those of 
the north temperate zone to what grows 
in semi-tropical regions. 
Arkansas courts investigation and invites all, 
regardless of nationality, politics or relig- 
ion, to come and help 
develop this empire 
within itself, and enjo}' 
the fruits of their 
labor. The opportu- 
nities afforded are un- 
equalled, lands of 
every class can be had 
at nominal price, 
which in a few years 
more will be out of 
the reach of many who 
can now secure a 
home. 




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With over two thousand miles of railway 
and three thousand miles of navigable 
rivers, makes every part of the State 
accessible. The St. Louis, Iron Mountain 
& Southern Rail- 




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The soil is wonderfully fertile, producing all 
crops grown in this latitude in abundance, 
equalling any and rivalling many of the 
States celebrated for their corn, wheat, oats 
and root crops. 




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The State has a greater variety of timbers 
useful for the mechanical arts than any of 
her neighbors, or all the New England States 
combined, and with her navigable waters 
and railways, they are easily placed on the 
market. 



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The mineral deposits are vast and varied. 
With a coal area of some two million acres to 
reduce our metallic ores for the use of the 
artisan, and with a greater variety of clays, 
used in the ceramic art, than has ever been 
found in the same space, supplemented by 
almost every kind of metallic minerals, 
Arkansas needs but skill and capital to rank 
with the most favored in the land. 




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In mineral springs of medicinal qualities, 
Arkansas is without a rival. The virtues of 
the Hot vSprings are well known in all parts 
of this country and Europe. 




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With over one 
hundred and 

fifty varieties of native grasses, th< 
are eight months pasture out of the 
tw^elve, and the introduction of 
cultivated grasses, with all the forage 
plants that can be grow^n in the greatest 
abundance, will make this State the prom- 
ised land of the stock raiser. 



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The fact that Arkansas has taken the first 
prizes for fruit at New Orleans, lioston, 
New York, Louisville, St. Louis and River- 
side, California^ needs nothing more to 
convince the reader that this is the home of 
the apple, peach, strawberry and the vine. 




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Such abundant raw material of every kind 
used by the manufacturer is not found in all 
this land, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 
as here awaits the hand of industry. 




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The Public School system is modeled after 
that of the more advanced Northern States. 
Every child in the State, white or black, 
is granted the privilege of a good common 
school education. The motto of the State 
is, "An educated child is the best legacy 
that can be left for the perpetuity of the 
country." 



[Railroad a^d C|0uer9/T\ei>(: 
Ca9d5. 

The United States has, and offers as a gift to 
the homesteader, 4,000,000 acres ; the State 
has for sale and donation a million and 
a half acres ; the St. Louis, Iron Mountain 
& Southern and Little Rock & Ft. Smith 
Railways have for sale, at low prices, on 
easy terms, with undisputed title, about 
two million acres. The railroad lands are 
all located within twenty miles of the track, 
and were selected over thirty years ago, 
before the cream of the Government lawds 
had been taken. Every part of the land 
grant is well supplied with public schools 
and churches, and a market is fouid for all 
farm products at some near station. The 
climate is all that can be desired. In com- 
parison with the much talked of climate of 
California, we find the mean annual tem- 
perature of Los Angeles is but one degree 
less than Little Rock, which is located 
about the centre of Arkansas. 




ARKANSAS. 

FARMS AND HOMES IN TH'i SUNNY SOUTH-LAND. 



The advantages offered by Arkansas to the 
home-seeker, manufacturer and investor are 
too numerous to mention in this short 
notice. That this State has natural ad- 
vantages over other States is readily 
conceded by all who have made proper- 
investigation. It has everything nature can 
give, and all that is needed to place it in 
the first ranks of progress, is enterprise, skill 
and money. 

This brief publication is merely designed to 
call attention to the State, and w^here 
further and more explicit information is 
required, write G. A. A. Deane, Land 
Commissioner, Little Rock, Ark., and he 
will send you, free, an illustrated pamphlet 
and other matter that treats more fully of 
the State and its resources. 



Railroad Lands. 

Farms ^ Homes in Arkansas 



..Two Million.. 
Acres 

Farming, Grazing, 

Fruit, Timbered 

and Mineral Land. 



Sold ia tracts to suit Purchasers. 

MILD CLIMATE, Variety of Products, 

LOW PRICES, Low Interest, 

Easy Terms. 



Maps and Circulars free. Address 

Q. A. A. DEANE, 



Land Commissioner, 

St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern 

and Little Rock & Ft. Smith Railways, 

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 




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G.A.A.DEANE. 

LAND COMMISSIONER. 



